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The article discusses the status of the coal mining industry in West Virginia in the wake of businessman Donald Trump's election as America's president in 2016, and it mentions natural gas, hydraulic fracturing (fracking), and clean energy sources in the U.S. A decline in demand for coal is addressed, along with Trump's promise to eliminate the environmental and climate change regulations that were implemented by then-American President Barack Obama prior to 2017.

The article profiles West Virginia U.S. congressional candidate Richard Ojeda, who is running as a Democrat. Topics include his previous support for U.S. President Donald Trump, his populist approaches to economic issues in West Virginia, and the attitudes of West Virginia voters regarding Ojeda. The significance of the coal industry in the state is noted.

Presents information on the coal industry in West Virginia. Argument of gubernatorial candidate John D. Rockefeller IV that strip-mining is detrimental to the best interests of West Virginians and should be abolished; Claim that six corporations, US Steel Corporation, Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, Hawley Coal, Olga Coal, Consolidation Coal Company, and Allied Chemical Corporation, produce two-thirds of McDowell County's coal; Discussion of the association between the coal industry and McDowell County Board of Education members; Suggestions for solving the basic problem of absentee ownership in Appalachia.

The article features Governor William C. Marland of West Virginia, who is one of the governors who have taken into the road to convince industries to locate their business in their states. It discusses the strategy of Governor Marland in promoting his campaign in the state to provide work for unemployed, which has begun in 1954 when the economic crisis in the coal industry has laid off more than 50,000 workers. It says that Governor Marland meets businessmen and industrialist through luncheons.

The article presents information on West Virginia. In West Virginia it is the staff of life. The State is a huge layer cake, hacked into grotesque slices by the elements, the slices are the mountains, the layers are rock, and the filling is coal. Rough mountains rise all about, beautiful in their bleak ugliness. It is coal on which a third of the population depends directly for its living, it is coal on which probably another third depends indirectly. It is coal that has converted the State into one great pockmark of mines. Before that, the State was a sort of wilderness, carved out of the backwoods of Virginia in the turmoil of the Civil War. Indigenous to it was a unique type of human being, the mountaineer.

The article presents a study comparing union and non-union West Virginia and Illinois-based coal mines in 1926. Researchers looked at the production values of the two groups to determine if unionization had a pronounced effect. Their preliminary findings revealed that non-union West Virginian coal mines had increased their production rates steadily since 1909. Analysts point out that West Virginian coal is more accessible. They say strikes and labor fluctuations also play a role in decreased production. Illinois suffered from a decreased labor force consistently from 1917-1923.

West Virginia's Republican governor, Jim Justice, has a clearer path for his Senate bid after Democrat Joe Manchin announced he will not seek reelection. Justice, a former Democrat who switched to the GOP during the Trump administration, is unlikely to face significant opposition from the Democratic Party in a state that Trump won by a large margin in 2020. Although Justice faces competition for the Republican nomination, he has the endorsement of Trump, support from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, personal wealth, and a significant lead in polls. Justice comes from a family with deep roots in the coal mining industry and has a diverse business empire that includes coal companies, agricultural holdings, and a historic West Virginia resort. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the business condition of coal industry in West Virginia and the increased restrictions for coal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The article presents information on the growth of the coal industry and the railroad industry in West Virginia. The coal industry of the region grew slowly through the first two decades before expanding rapidly in the beginning of the 1880s. The railroads in the region is stated to have helped propel the growth.

The article reflects on impact of the labor strife in West Virginia's coalfields a hundred years ago on the 2012 Presidential Elections. It further mentions the political partnership between antagonist coal miners and their management and it is believed that it will help not to repeat that situation again. It also informs about the increasing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that has driven operating costs and thus forced coal companies out of business.

The article compares Washington, D.C., polled as economically optimistic, and West Virginia, which rated extremely pessimistic in the same Economic Confidence Index poll. Topics discussed include D.C.'s high concentration of wealth, average level of education, and lack of industrial and manufacturing jobs. West Virginia's poverty, the state of labor unions there, and the Friends of Coal organization, which challenges environmentalists' claims against the coal industry.

The April 5, 2010 Upper Big Branch explosion in West Virginia was the worst coal mine disaster in the United States in 40 years. Given the importance of the coal industry to the United States, coal mine safety regulations do not effectively prevent such disasters from occurring, and a culture of impunity protects both coal companies and government agencies from being held accountable for contributing to disasters. The United Mine Workers of America's diminished strength in West Virginia leaves most miners with little recourse against growing corporations. An examination of the history of disasters in West Virginia coal mines provides insight into how the factors leading to the Upper Big Branch explosion developed and can potentially be prevented. [West Virginia, coal mining, mine disasters, labor unions, corporate impunity, Massey Energy, legislation and enforcement] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the demonstrations in West Virginia that call for the replacement of mountaintop removal mining with a wind farm. The effort to fight the coal industry started in 2006 when the Coal River Mountain Watch and environmentalist David Orr found that the top of Coal River Mountain in Raleigh County have strong wind currents. They predict that the wind farm can accommodate 220 turbines and generate 328 megawatts of energy a year. They add that the construction of the wind farm will provide 200 jobs and increase revenues.

The author reports on Larry Gibson, a man who refuses to sell his land in West Virginia to coal miners. The author states that the 50 acres of land has been in Gibson's family for more than 200 years. The opinions from area residents regarding Gibson's decision to not sell the land are discussed. The way in which Gibson lives on the land is mentioned. INSET: WHAT IS MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL.

The article discusses the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 when 10,000 armed coal miners attempted to assert their rights against the coal mining companies in West Virginia. The uprising was the largest single uprising in American history after the Civil War. U.S. Army troops were brought in to quell the uprising.

Focuses on the political controversies surrounding the use of coal as a major energy resource in the United States. Impact of both an energy shortage in California and the energy policies of United States President George W. Bush on the so-called Big Coal industry; Possibility and effects of dismantling the New Source Review, which regulates power-plant operations; Environmental damage caused by coal-gathering, particularly at Hobet 21 in West Virginia; Likelihood of sustained coal use in the U.S.

Focuses on the mountaintop mining by coal companies in West Virginia. Description of the coal fields in the area; Information on the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act.

Focuses on the impact of strip-mining by coal companies on Appalachia and Blair, West Virginia. When coal companies started strip-mining in West Virginia; Information on the coal industry; Reference to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1997, which governs strip-mining in the United States; Details on mountaintop removal, a method of strip-mining; Factors attributed to Appalachia coal operators movement towards stripping.

Focuses on coal miners of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia region of the U.S. Availability of jobs in coal mines of West Virginia; Disease caused by decades of exposure to coal-mine dust; Economic condition of the miners in Kentucky; Social life of the miners.

Focuses on problems faced by the U.S. coal industry. Rise in the price of coal; Insistence of coal operators that miners' wages account for the rise in coal prices; Impact of the World War I on the coal industry; Claim of John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers before a separate committee of the President's Unemployment Conference, to relief coal miners from the disintegrating effects of unemployment; Intervention of the government to stop the march of coal miners during the outbreak of a civil war in West Virginia; Realization of the administration that the problem faced by the coal industry is the waste of uncoordinated management; Possibility of the coal miners' strike on issues related to labor cost and union domination; Features of the America public policy towards the coal industry.

Focuses on the 1921 Message to the Legislature by West Virginia Governor John J. Cornwell regarding industrial trouble. Problems in the question of unionizing non-union fields; Reason for the failure of the strike called by the United Mine Workers; Information about the Williamson Coal Operators Association of West Virginia and its fight against the United Mine Workers; Opposition of the governor to the private guard system.

Focuses on Gerard Swope, one of the country's leading open-shop employers, who has now become a volunteer worker for the American Federation of Labor in the soft-coal industry. Selection of Swope as chairman of the Coal Mediation Board; Settlement of the Fayette County, West Virginia strike; Opinion that the National Recovery Administration (NRA) must either be smashed or utterly transformed; Injunction against the NRA by a Texas oil company.

Presents an insight into the coal miners' strikes in the U.S. Reasons for occurrence of the strike; Information on a new proposal from the President Herbert Hoover for a national conference between miners and operators to decide what can be done to stabilize wages and improve general conditions in the coal industry; Attempts of the workers to break away from their old labor organization, the United Mine Workers Association to form a new union; Description of the strike situation in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky.

The article reports that U.S. coal production declined in 1969's first half by 16 million tons from 1968's first half, but demand increased. The National Coal Association forecast that 1969 demand would be 16 million tons over the 549.5-million-ton consumption in 1968. It says that most of the 1969 production decline is credited to work halts, such as the three-week strike that shut mines in West Virginia. It states that the main effect of coal shortage is likely to fall on domestic steelmakers.

The article analyzes the implications of the mine disaster in West Virginia that happened a week prior to November 30, 1968. It is said that the tragedy can raise public clamor for tougher mine safety laws and on the other hand, it can bring the need for recruiting additional miners as the coal industry is still expanding. The United Mine Workers (UMW) is mentioned to be helping in rescue operations and in investigating the causes of the said mine disaster.

The article looks at the possible construction of a coal transportation pipeline between U.S. East Coast cities and the Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal fields as of December 1961. Focus is given to the mixture of coal and water, called slurry, the economic aspect of the pipeline, and the impact on railroad companies including Baltimore & Ohio (B&O), Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O), and Norfolk & Western (N&W). Also analyzed is reduction of coal rates by railroad firms in order to stay competitive.

The article focuses on the coal industry in West Virginia. Coal mining continues to be the highest-paying industry in the state but coal mining jobs in the state have decreased from 130,457 in 1940 to 14,281 in the year 2000. Technological innovations are responsible for the majority of that 88 percent decline.